I agree with Charlie.  For those motormouths out there (grin), I invite you to buy and enjoy a non-electric airplane and land at a few hundred airports NORDO using old-fashioned see & avoid procedures.  Not only is the silence refreshing, you learn how to use your eyes and wits, orbiting when necessary and taking your place when you can.  My biggest fear when approaching a busy non-controlled airport in my Aeronca Champ is that a pilot with a radio will run over me because he THINKS he knows where everyone is. 

 

I never answer when someone makes that “……please advise” call.  That’s just one more unnecessary call, perhaps blocking someone from making a really necessary call.  IMHO, the Ideal that every pilot should strive for is to make only those calls that are necessary (or recommended by the AIM), using not one extra word, ever, even to the point of shortening your call sign to 3 letters or digits, or just using your aircraft type when appropriate, such as, “Cambridge traffic, Lancair, downwind.  Repeating the location a second time, as some do, is one word too many or, in the case of the MM’s (see above) it could be 7 or 8 words too many in itself.  Two or three pilots busily establishing each others’ positions by radio can easily spoil another pilot’s day.

 

I was taught, way back in aviation cadets, that unnecessary radio talk was rude, in addition to being unsafe.  Does anyone else remember it that way?